Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-03-22
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down into gold dust his antedeluy1an
assets in whatever shape, Into the mem
ey drawer he melts down his saw-miil,
his mountain land and his storehouse
plunder that was old when antiquity
was young. Swelling his bank ac-
count goes the wreck of mortgage,
ledger and negotiable. The special
ties for NET SPoT CASH, clear his
clouded brain aud infuse into his
nerve and pulse and brain, high hear.
en- born courage for rapid, solid and
splendid success. The day for com
promise with King Credit has gone
and war to the knife, to the hilt and
the quick, down TO the marrow, is the
battIe-cry of legions who for years
had been struggling in the grim
deathly embrace of unlimited time
even the fifty and one hundred per
center who had stood palsied by his
faithless friends, on the commercial
death trap, awaiting the inevitable,
jumped from the fatal track, and
smelling into Damascus blades his
worthless dead lumber aud investing
in eloquent "sledge-hammers" at
his triumphaI march, rough-shod,
over the unnumbered Hosts who
bought on long time, sold on eternity,
charged up on the DEVIL s OWN Book
OF FATE, with profit that meant to
both buyer and seller Rum, utter
overwhelming, final. Beginning here
at the commercial centre, men Of
clever calihre, true courage and cash
TO back their enterprises, have caught
inspiration from our marvellous sue
cess and lead off with the knock
down argument of five per cent ad-
vance, and all over the land the old
timer, with his war club of two hun
dred per cent. is disappearing before
the unanswerable volleys of TWENTY
FIVE per cent.
ECery one has his price.-Never was axiom
trucr. Some that money will not buy, kind
word viii fetch. Others who are unapproach-
able. yet touch them upon the tender chords OF
sympathetic nature and you have lifelong
friends. and though the masses may not be de-
luded by the old wolf cry of "selliug of az
cost" yet wher the q genuine sledge-hamMer"
comes they win wade in. Touch them on that
tenderest corn. that sensitive nerve called the
pocket book. and your struggle Is over and the
victory complete. The mother will drop her
babe, the tailor his ehcarS. the seametfeee ner
needle the doctor his pills. piety It's Bible, the
tfpler his throat-scratcher and tobacco juice,
the lawyer his briefs. the farmer his plow. the
commerciai traveller his check, and stampede
en- maSse for-RnckbottOm
Manchester BlnckIncr wrotef % had been
scorched by n whitening competition could
not meet. Day after day he belched. forth
some new thundeF-holt that shook the country
for miles around. No one felt it keener than
T. for had always claimed 10 be beyond the
range of the unahsN cradle artillery OF travel
ine men, and there scented 20 way OF tnatehinE
him unless sold r,y goods away below cost.
4 Thought he had specials ns br'ts and sugar
plurnF 20 catch the nuvnry- OF that lie y ne SCI
Ing oat at nuy price TO beat hit er.ditors and
ers but other nrrirnle filled UP nnt took their
place. and faster than j could raise the cash
his sledge hammers came. IN despair ] went
20 SEQ tim one night after business hours TO
buy him out or sell out 70 hiTn. To my nston-
ishmGne he hadn't even heard % me. &c was
willing to Eeii-thc place was too small for him
TO swell and stretch and spread but In addition
to Eve per cent. on fret cost he whnted one
hundred dollars hard money for his secret
when the bargain was closed and the money
paid. He laid upon the counter his great Sc
cret. which he claimed had inspired him with
such tremendous desperation and had driven
him from poverty to mastery. Ny Godl what
n price for paper that had often come to me
free. and as often had been flung into the
waste basket! Afraid of my shadow l was
chilled by the first line. I was scared by the
insane and ignorant cry against AZ auction
goods" whilst this king of dare devils
had made it his grand battle cry. Vain were
nv remoustrances. He had the money-he
had sold his secret many times he got but one
hundred dollars hut the fortunate pOssessor
gained a fortune cceIy time. took his advice
and aimed low, and with your grape and can
lister swept the field" Brave Blackmcr; that
was the lucky card and the mountains re-echo
the shout from the valley. Victory-victOry-
victoryl That was three years ago and the
agencies rated him blank, which was our own
rating ten years back. it signihed stand from
under; but with US II meant % get out Of the
way or we'll ride over you. To-day he stands
tIcenty. .fUe thousand dbOUe high trdteT-mdrk.
The local markets and second hand traders
are making great capital over the trials and
tribulations Of the metropolis In her grapple
with the despOtic blatherskites of the knights
of Labor. II was u brief trial between tho
power of law and the legiOns of the tyranic
law breaker-between the idiOtic audacity OF
the bOVcot and the Constitution of the United
States, and the great commercial centre Of the
world made short and decisive work with the
mOnstrOus coalition, and the old flag waves
where the red rag of anarchy and communism
was hoisted. Scarcely lcss prepOsterous and
ridiculous was the Oil Cloth monopoly, which
denied To all the right TO buy when, where OF
how they pleased. They named their prices
and demanded the right To fix ours. but there
is a limit tn humiliation beyond which perpOnai
pride revolts and will not stOOp. no matter how
heavily sugar coated. We undeTbOuEht and
undersold the Million Dollar Association
They refused to sell us, as II the ALMIGHTY
DOLIAh wOtlunt buN anything on SOob
green earth. We bought where we pleased
aud sold as we pleased and we cut the cOmbi-
nation from S2-75 70 S2:25, other widths and
styles In proportion Of course they will swenT
like strikers and yell as we rattle the hot shot
into their big, stiff. steep. impudent ideas Of
regular prices; but the masses will grayitate
toward rOck-bOttOm every time, as sure as
you're born. So too with the Admantine Pin
Conspiracy. we crowded them into the sweat
box one after another aud demanded and COM
manded absolute and unconditional surrender (;
like the coal strike.-the OIL Cloth combine
and the Pin coalition have drifted into ancient
history.
IN the tragic play of life the bolt has fallen
0gsin and another name added To the historic
baud who fought and peTished In the struggle
for supremacy. side by side through nine
years of desperate battle sat the leader and bis
first lieutenant. the former pursued by re-
morseless ambition that murdered sleep and
rest. thirsting for impOssibilities, always look
ing upon the dark shadows of life; whilst the
latter with perfect purity Of thought. WadiDg
of al